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Shooting star ever toured in different countries, including North America, Europe and also Asia. Adam’s Shooting Star band had made them more popular. All tickets on each tour are always sold
out and most of fans also make merchandise like t-shirts, hats off to special-edition Shooting Star telescope.
“As the tour went on, the album just started going haywire. Platinum. Then double-platinum. The tour dates sold out, so our promoters added additional ones to meet demand. The merchandising deals were everywhere. Shooting Star T-
shirts, caps, posters, stickers, even a special-edition Shooting Star telescope. Suddenly, the press was all over us. Interviews all the time, which was flattering at first. People cared enough about us to read what we had to say.”
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b. Striving for Success or Superiority
Before joining “Shooting Star”, Adam joined “Infinity 89 band” which performed in home parties. Until they finally broke up because one of the personnel decided to go to College. The adventures
of Adam started as a soloist and a songwriter. He performed from cafe to cafe to meet a girl named Liz and join in the band “Shooting Star “.
“Thus began my brief stint as a lone singer-songwriter about town, playing in coffeehouses, mostly. Doing the café circuit was marginally better than the house parties...”
“One girl was different. She had ropy muscled arms and a fierce look in her eyes. The first time she spoke to me she said only: “You’re wasted.”
“Nope. Sober as a stone,” I replied. “Not that kind of wasted,” she said, arching her pierced eyebrow. “You’re wasted on acoustic. I saw you play before in
that terrible band of yours, but you were really good, even for a child such as yourself.” “Thanks. I think.”
“You’re welcome. I’m not here for flattery. I’m here for recruitment.” Where She Went, 2009:193-194
c. Inferiority Feeling
Every time before Adam’s tour, he is always struck by a sense of anxiety excessive. Anxious feeling Adam is actually more like solitude than the crowd.
“November? It’s August now. That’s three months. And the tour is sixty-seven nights. Sixty-seven. I repeat it in my head like a mantra, except it does the opposite of what a mantra’s supposed to do. It makes me want to grab fistfuls of
my hair and yank.” “And how do I tell Aldous, how do I tell any of them, that the music, the adrenaline, the love, all the things that mitigate
how hard this has become, all of that’s gone? All that’s left is this vortex. And I’m right on the edge of it.” “My entire body is shaking. I’m losing it. A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one
seems as impossible as scaling Everest.” Where She Went, 2009:26-27
d. Style of life
Adam is a gentleman. Beside he is easily emotional, he is also a gentleman. Gentle attitude is not shown for everyone, but he only shows it to people who know about his life and his immediate
people.
“Don’t you have a sweater or something?” I asked. “It didn’t complete the look.”
“Here.” I handed her my jacket. “She raised her eyebrows in surprise. A gentleman.”
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e. Social Interest
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For three months in the bedroom, Adam does not do any activity. He is like a man without spirit in life until suddenly he is aware and back to his life like usually. He finally asked his father about the
job, and he thought that he had to rise. He had to think of his parents who had been good to him over the years.
“For three months, I lay in my childhood bed, wishing myself as comatose as Mia had been. That had to be easier than this. My sense of shame finally roused me. I was nineteen years old, a college dropout, living in my parents’ house,
unemployed, a lay about, a cliché. My parents had been cool about the whole thing, but the reek of my pathetic was starting to make me sick. Finally, right after the New Year, I asked my father if there were any jobs at the plant.”
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f. Creative Self
Creative Self of Adam is in order to maintain the person he loved; Adam is willing to do anything. The first, he is willing not to participate in the making the video song. The second, he is willing to
decide to be with Bryn, who has been with him in the difficult times.
“I go to in the garden where it’s private and peaceful in the afternoon light, the summer cicadas chirping up a storm. Aldous picks up on the first ring and the minute I hear his voice and start talking ...”
“I can’t see Aldous so I can’t know if he blinks or flinches or looked surprised, but he doesn’t miss a beat.” “You’ll honor all your tour commitments?” he repeats.
“Yep.” “What am I supposed to say to the band?”
“They can make the video without me if they want. I’ll see them at the Guildford Festival,” I say referring to the big music festival in England that we’re headlining to kick off our tour. “And I’ll explain everything then.”
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2. Discussion
